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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2023 — General Studies · Question 54 of 200

Q54
Indian National MovementRise of Nationalism & the Congress
The youngest President of the Indian National Congress, who held that office at the age of 35, was
  1. a.Rash Bihari Ghosh
  2. b.Subhas Chandra Bose
  3. c.Abul Kalam Azad
  4. d.Lala Lajpat Rai

Answer: (C) Abul Kalam Azad

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad presided over the special session of the Congress at Delhi in September 1923 at the age of 35, the youngest person to hold the office. Born in Mecca in 1888, he edited Al-Hilal and Al-Balagh and later became free India's first Education Minister. Rash Behari Ghosh presided at Surat (1907) and Madras (1908) as an elderly Moderate; Subhas Chandra Bose was 41 at Haripura (1938); and Lala Lajpat Rai presided over the Calcutta special session of 1920. The oldest President was Dadabhai Naoroji, aged 81 at Calcutta in 1906.

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